Cell anatomy

The selling of organs has been illegal since 1984. In a way this law has kept people with kidney failure from advancing to where they could be today such as a shorter waiting list and keeping death rates from this specific disease from rising. I believe their could be so many more opportunities and fulfilled lives with the legal buying and selling of organs. There is not nearly enough people in the country to match the growing waiting list for a kidney. Over 34,000 people were added to the…

In 2005, a new medical drama series called, Grey’s anatomy was aired on TV and is still running up to eleven seasons till today. This show takes place in Seattle, Washington but is filmed in Los Angeles, California. Grey’s anatomy is briefly about interns who graduated from medical school and are now working in a hospital called the Seattle Grace hospital. Overall, the show centers around the main character Meredith Grey and her fellow relationships with her friends Izzy, Christina, George,…

As minister Myles Munroe once said, “The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live,” (Donation Quotes). Throughout history, organ donation and transplantation has become one of the most valuable and impactful medical advancements. By simply removing an unneeded organ or tissue from a donor and placing it in a recipient’s body, this miraculous procedure has the power to forever…

One argument against an organ market is that a market in organs would make the body an object to just sell and would ruin social values. Gilbert Meilaender, an author and researcher in bioethics says, “Buying and selling - even if it would provide more organs needed for transplant - would make of the body simply a natural object, at our disposal if the price is right”. It would make organs into an object you can just buy. It would put a price on human life. This would get rid of the idea of…

The black market for organs is a debatable topic that have been discussed for many years. To receive money for organ donations is illegal in the United States and many other countries as well. This is all known as “Organ Trafficking”. One of the main things stopping this from becoming legal is the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act which states that you cannot get compensated for organ donation. Around 20% of kidney transplants worldwide comes from the black market. There are many pros to…

In the movie Spiderman, the protagonist Peter Parker is a geeky, introverted, intelligent high school boy who gets bit by an engineered spider during a field trip to a lab. After the biting of the spider, Parker turns into a stronger and confident person who possesses spider-like qualities. Throughout the movie it is clear Spiderman’s legacy is that he wishes to protect civilians, he can be considered as a superhero vigilante or be considered as a criminal. Parker develops super speed, strength,…

Animal Testing There has been a long debate on whether animal should be used as a main source of testing Animals have been experimented and tested on for centuries. People came up with the idea that if they were unsure how a substance or compound would react on them, they started to use the same chemical on animal to see the results. They would then compare the results with the humans once they were used as test subjects. Animals have proven to be a source for testing since they have similar…

about being on an organ transplant waiting list for decades, waiting for their inevitable death. Human cloning has allowed us to grow organs, by using skin cells and converting them to stem cells. The nucleus of these stem cells of skin are then replaced into the nucleus and create what is known as a blastocyst, a bundle of hundreds of cells whose purpose is to specialize growing a specific body part, such as an ear. (Knapton). Not only can this help people who are in life-threatening…

scientific process called the somatic cell nuclear transfer or SCNT. During this process, scientists remove the chromosomes from the egg cell and replace them with the nucleus of a somatic cell which contains two sets of chromosomes. Since the nucleus of the somatic cell comes from a human who already displays genetic variation from their mother and father, the clone will receive both of their sets of chromosomes from one cell, and not from both the egg and sperm cells (“What is Cloning?” 1).…

The sell and donation process of human organs is a debatable topic not just amongst the citizens of the United States but in most other countries located all over the world. The motivation of criminals who commit these operations tend to surround one main contributing factor, currency. As money is the motivational factor of these operations, a good word to define such behavior is greed. Greed is amongst the seven deadly sins and is one of the main persuading factors leading to the selling and…